Easy Modelling Clay

Submitted by Kate in Ontario

"I found this recipe on a website called squiglysplayhouse.com while I was trying to help my kids with a school project. We were trying to create a medieval church. It is a simple recipe that takes very little time and costs a lot less to make than buying modelling clay."

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 4
• Yields: 1 ball

ingredients

• 177.44 ml water
• 14.79 ml vegetable oil
• 295.73 ml flour
• 295.73 ml table salt

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Mix all ingredients together until you have a soft ball of dough-if too dry add a bit of water.
3. Sprinkle some flour on counter and knead it until smooth and stretchy.
4. Shape the dough any way you want-use a toothpick or straw for making holes.
5. When finished shaping, put on cookie sheet and bake 20 minutes or until hard-timing depends on size of your piece of art.
6. Place on wire rack to cool.
7. Once cool, you can paint them.
8. When paint is dry a clear varnish can be added to give your creation a wonderful shine.

Reviews

[Elboe Bethel]

Easy to make & easy to clean up. We made hand & foot prints with this and it worked great. I had to watch these bake though because the dough got some air bubbles that needed to be popped before the dough hardened.

 

[sweetstar4]

My son had fun making different shapes and painting them.

 

[Marianne in Switzer]

This really is a great recipe. In europe, we call this kind of dough Salt Dough, Saltzteig or Saltdeig. Experiment a little with adding more oil to make it supple - if you add too much, just add flour to dry it out a bit again. Wall-hanging sculptures are really fun to make, but you can also make standing people or things.

 

[sunny sheila]

This turned out wondfull.We had alot of fun with it. I found if we made the shapes to thick we had to cook them a bit longer. I did turn some of them over after the tops where cooked,to cook the bottom just a bit. Had fun and will keep having fun with this. Thanks Kate..... Sheila